I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson.
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“Gemstones of narrative. Something new, funny, astonishing.”-Los Angeles Daily News“Tales tall, tragic, and tantalizing.”-Sunset Magazine“Stories from all walks and talks of life. Tales of yore and ones thatmake you scream for more-those that will delight with insight while moving anaudience from laughter to tears.”-Studio City SunStory Salon is Los Angeles’s longest running storytelling venue. Whatbegan as an alternative to stand-up clubs and self-conscious performance spaceshas been challenging performers and audiences for more than a decade.Created in a North Hollywood coffee house Story Salon now reaches the globethrough Podcasting, publishing, and recordings.

The rules of the Story Salon haven’t changed since it started: Five toseven minutes of original material performed by the author. The result is aunique blend of observation, memoir and comment that makes the Salon one ofthe most eclectic entertainment experiences available. More than a dozensolo theater works have been developed at Story Salon, as well as a CD ofstories, and several books.“Live storytelling is a unique art form,” says Story Salon founder,writer/actor/comedian Beverly Mickins. “Words spoken aloud paint picturescapable of evoking laughter and tears, the whole range of emotion. People havebeen telling each other stories since the first campfires, talking about thewhole mix of things, important and trivial, that go into making life.Storytelling is one of the ways we figure out how to be human.”It’s an omnibus of memories, rants, affirmations, and shaggy-dog storiesthat once opened is impossible to shut.The writer/performers of Story Salon include actors, comedians, musicians,photographers, war correspondents, students, life coaches, former clowns,recovering attorneys, one admitted juggler, an international fashion model,several husbands and wives, and one mother and daughter.

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I represent the first generation whom, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson.
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